Our use of cookies

We use necessary cookies to make our site work and Google Analytics cookies to help us understand how you use it. We’d also like to set optional social media cookies to help us improve your experience of using our site. We won’t set optional social media cookies unless you enable them below. Using this tool will set a cookie on your device to remember your preferences. For more detailed information about the cookies we use, see our Cookies policy.

Necessary cookies

Necessary cookies enable core functionality such as security, network management, and accessibility. You may disable these by changing your browser settings, but this may affect how the website functions.

Social media cookies

If you would like to access social media features, including viewing streamed video content, please provide your consent to the placing of cookies by social media networks, by ticking the box to the left. These networks may have access to follow you and use your online behaviour for other purposes.

Analytics cookies

We use Google Analytics cookies to help us to improve our website by collecting and reporting information on how you use it. For more information on how these cookies work please see our Cookies policy

VolkerStevin, together with the Environment Agency and consultants Jacobs, have been presented with the Value Award at the South East Constructing Excellence Awards 2011 for their work on the Deptford Creek Frontages Flood Risk Management Project, London. VolkerStevin has also been presented with a Project Management Award for the Deptford Creek project at the Environment Agency Project Excellence Awards.

For the Value Award, the judges looked for projects on which long-term value has been best achieved. The Deptford Creek project provides long-term value to a substantial community in Greater London through improved flood protection across nine failing water frontages. Over 33,500 households are now protected from an estimated £6.7billion worth of flood damage over the next 100 years. The nine frontages were packaged into a single solution delivered design providing operational efficiencies. The works also demanded innovative construction and concerted community engagement.

VolkerStevin, as part of the project team, received the Project Management Award for exemplary project management at the site where the team worked tirelessly to reduce planned completion time and maximise efficiency. The team ensured that they put in place a system of liaison that started many months prior to construction and continued throughout, militating against possible delays and compensation claims. Joint planning and the understanding of engineering constraints allowed the team to be flexible in their approach and deliver beyond the targets set.

Windsor Young, contracts manager at VolkerStevin, said "VolkerStevin maintained close relationships with those affected by the works and several innovative solutions were implemented to achieve targets and manage site specific constraints.

This included the use of silent piling techniques to reduce noise from traditional piling. A variety of constraints were met and overcome during the construction of the scheme and so I would like to congratulate all those involved."

Helena Henao Fernandez, senior business user at the Environment Agency, said "In times when government organisations are facing financial constraints, it is very important to highlight projects that succeed in delivering benefits whilst optimising funding and resources. One of the Environment Agency's corporate strategies is ‘more for less' and this concept has been applied rigorously throughout the entire life cycle of the Deptford Creek Frontages Flood Risk Management project."